WE SAW THIS DISTURBING CRIME TREND START LATE LAST YEAR, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, VIOLENT ATTACKS ON UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS. IT SEEMED LIKE THE KNOCK-OUT GAME STARTED TO FADE AWAY, UNTIL NOW. JOEL EISENBAUM HAS THE STORY OF A LOCAL MAN WHO SAYS HE'S THE LATEST VICTIM OF THESE BRUTAL ATTACKS. Reporter: OKAY. HERE'S THE SCENARIO. I'M FOLLOWING YOU. WELL, IT'S NOT DAY, IT'S NIGHT. IT'S NOT JUST ME, THERE ARE THREE. AND JUST AS YOU START TO THINK, HUH, WHAT SHOULD I DO IN THIS SITUATION, IT'S TOO LATE. AND WHEN I TURN AROUND, THEY JUST ALL JUMP AT THE SAME TIME. Reporter: GERONIMO STEPS FROM HIS HOME ON UVALDE ON HOUSTON'S EAST SIDE AND WAS ATTACKED BY THREE YOUNG MEN, HE SAYS. DID THEY SAY ANYTHING? NOTHING AT ALL. Reporter: DID YOU SAY ANYTHING? NO. Reporter: THOSE MEN WANTED NOTHING OTHER THAN TO DISH OUT A BEATING, SAYS THE 35-YEAR-OLD VICTIM. HE FOUND HELP BY BANGING ON THE DOOR OF THIS STORE. THEY CAME OUT AND THEY TRIED TO CHASE THE GUYS DOWN BUT THEY WERE TOO FAST AND THEY RAN AWAY. Reporter: IT'S A PUZZLING CRIME BUT CERTAINLY NOT UNPRECEDENTED. ON MY WAY OUT OF THE PIZZA SHOP, I HAD FOUR GENTLEMEN COME AND JUST START BEATING ME. Reporter: ACROSS THE U.S., A STRANGE AND SCARY PHENOMENON STARTED SPREADING ACROSS THE U.S. CALLED THE KNOCK-OUT GAME, WHERE THE GOAL IS TO SURPRISE AND INCHRISTMASITY UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS. A KATY MAN CHARGED IN DECEMBER WITH A FEDERAL HATE CRIME FOR ALLEGEDLY PUMMELLING A 79-YEAR-OLD MAN. POLICE WILL TELL YOU IT IS TOUGH TO DEFEND AGAINST THIS KIND OF CRIME. HE MAY HAVE HAD JUST A SMALL WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, THAT IS AS SOON AS HE REALIZED THERE WAS TROUBLE, HE MAY HAVE MADE A BEELINE INTO THAT STORE, THAT COULD HAVE SAVED HIM.

HOUSTON -

An east Houston man who was attacked and beaten by three men Thursday night believes he was the victim of a vicious game.

Quezada, 35, said that he had gone to the store to get a soda. He saw the three men who were possibly teens watching him and following him.

Soon after emerging from the store, he was tackled and punched for no apparent reason.

Quezada was not seriously injured and sought help at a local barber shop on the 600 block Uvalde Road not far from the East Freeway.

The crime happened Thursday night at about 9 p.m.. Quezada filed a police report but does not have high hopes of the men being caught.

"They were pretty covered up. I just don't want it to happen again," he said.

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